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Losing Ground + Introduction (15*)

I Am Furious Black

,Cinema 3
a man and a woman sitting together

A classic independent title of Black cinema, Kathleen Collins' comic drama follows a university professor navigating a midlife crisis in their career, relationships, and intellectual life. 

Born in Jersey City in in 1942, the multi-talented poet, playwright, filmmaker, civil rights activist, and educator Kathleen Collins worked with William Greaves as a production assistant on Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, and as an editor at his production company. Collins also worked on Black Journal, alongside emerging filmmakers including Stan Lathan, St. Clair Bourne, and Madeline Anderson, all of whom developed their careers under Greaves' guidance. 

Losing Ground is a smart, witty, complex and very well-constructed portrait of 80s America, and a community of intellectuals, artists and students, presenting a varied snapshot of life amongst Black artistic circles. It is supported by a fantastic cast that includes Seret Scott, Bill Gunn and Duane Jones. 

Tagged with: Cinema I Am Furious Black

The film will be introduced by Taylor Le Melle.

Film information
  • Release year   1982
  • Country of origin   USA
  • Director   Kathleen Collins
  • Runtime   1hr 25mins

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£15.50 (£14 + £1.50 transaction fee)
* Excludes £1.50 booking fee

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Taylor Le Melle lives and works in London and Rotterdam. In 2021 they edited and published Orion J. Facey’s science-fantasy novel The Virosexuals (PSS) and completed a three-year term as co-director of not/nowhere, an artists’ workers cooperative based in East London. 

Their recent work has included curating exhibitions, facilitating groups, building infrastructures, producing audio tracks, diagrams, and objects. Mostly they consider these latter three examples to be “draft objects”. 

Insomuch as artistic practice is a form of not-work (i.e., play-as-labour), they have taken acute interest in the labour conditions within artistic ecosystems, in notions of property and value, knowledge creation, intuition, cycles of healing and somatic therapy. 

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